Tippex

Just to update, I managed to sort this. I replaced
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
in custom_home.php with
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Slider', true); ?></a>

I then added a custom field called ‘Slider’ to any of the pages / posts that I wanted to use the slider on and put the slider title in there. Working a treat.